Vacations on breaks

This past weekend I visited a couple of my high school friends down at Ball State in Muncie, IN where they go to college.  It was a really good time, catching up on things considering we haven’t seen each other since mid summer. 

Throughout my lifetime, I have had friends always talk of taking vacations to far off and exotic places when school breaks come around.  Usually it’s somewhere warm like Florida or a cruise in the Bahamas and it always sounds like they have a great time escaping the cold and snow of the Midwest.

However, I have never enjoyed such trips.  Of course my family would always take vacations over the summer, but we never were able to during the school year.  That’s partially because of two reasons.

The first reason is my mom is actually a college professor, and has always had different school breaks then my sister and me.  Not Christmas, but spring break is always a different week.  Secondly, my dad works third shift and has difficulty scheduling his vacation days to match ours.  Therefore, we are all rarely on break at the same time.

However, when visiting with my friends this past weekend, we decided to take a trip for spring break because we discovered we all share the same week.  We have no idea where we’re going yet, but I can definitely tell you I’m excited at the possibility of escaping Indiana in the first week of March and going somewhere warm.